Exctract GIF comment from image

[Guilherme Polo]

2008/3/11, wingi at gmx.com <wingi at gmx.com>:
> Hi,
>
>  simple question: The PIL does not support reading the optional
>  description in GIF Images.
>
>  http://www.pythonware.com/library/pil/handbook/format-gif.htm
>
>  After some reasearch I could not find a python solution for this, any
>  suggestions?
>
>  Thanx, Wingi.
>
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I did a quick thing here, try it and check if it solves the problem for you:

import os
import sys
import struct

def extract_comments(giffile):
    fobj = open(giffile, 'rb')

    giftype = fobj.read(6)
    pf = struct.unpack('<hhBBB', fobj.read(7))[2]
    if pf & 0x80:
        pallete_size = 2 << (pf & 0x07)
        fobj.read(3 * pallete_size)
    # finished reading header

    fsize = os.stat(giffile).st_size
    while fobj.tell() != fsize:
        mark = ord(fobj.read(1))

        if mark == 0x21: # gif extension
            label = ord(fobj.read(1))
            is_comment = label == 254

            # read the extension block
            blocksize = ord(fobj.read(1))
            while blocksize:
                if is_comment:
                    print fobj.read(blocksize)
                else:
                    fobj.read(blocksize)

                blocksize = ord(fobj.read(1))

def main(args):
    if len(args) < 2:
        print "Usage: %s <gif file> ..." % args[0]
        sys.exit(0)

    for gif in args[1:]:
        extract_comments(gif)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main(sys.argv)

-- 
-- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves